Music for snails to race by [Bob asks]

[Bob]

I find it amusing to think of snails racing to Strauss's Perpetual Motion.  (which sounds like background music for a cartoon)  I can just see them at some type of carnival-fair thing...

Any other ideas for snail racing music?

Strauss's Tritsch Trash Polka, maybe

Dance of the Swans, Tchaikovsky (for detemined, serious snails who plod along and also for snails who like to bob their heads while racing)

Samson and Delilah, Saint Saens (esp the part with low brass.... big, muscular, bravura snails)

More seriously, does anyone know of any catalog's that index music by emotion?  These pieces are "happy" pieces, these pieces are "sad", etc.   (these are "snail racing" pieces)


[This thread is another example of "bs"-ing uncovering a more interesting, possibly useful idea.]


Here's a link for those not in the know....
https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4751.0.html

[xvimbi]

Any other ideas for snail racing music?

There is a lot of music that has been written for and about snails:

Tchaikowsky: Dance of the Sugarsnail Fairy
Beethoven: Rage over a lost snail
Haydn: Symphony No. 432 ("The Snail Symphony")
Sorabji: Opus Coclealisticum

and foremost:

Liszt: Grand Galop d'Escargots

[Bob]

What's this?  Is xvimbi softening up?  A joke?   lol

[Tash]

LOL how about the prokofiev's love of three snails march
or something a little more upbeat khachaturian's snail (sabre) dance

[bernhard]

Snail music? You must have loved “Dr. Doolitle”.

[Bob]

Actually, no.  I haven't seen it for a long time, but I don't think I liked it much.  I just like the typed version only.

[DarkWind]

The Third Movement of Gershwin's Piano Concerto is of course the best choice here.

[Torp]

I'm sure Van Halen is the appropriate choice for snail racing.  That or the Scorpions.

[mikeyg]

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[Torp]

All purposes?